I have a SS20 I would like to ressurect (It currently has a very old version of RedHat). The "new" 2005.0 experimental that is talked about in the sticky note don'e seem to exist anymore. I was able to find a copy of the 2004.1 in a mirror so I was wondering, will this allow me to get an OK modern install?

Also I have 2 sparc 2's, 2 sparc IPX's and a sparc 10,,, can these run gentoo? they don't have much for drive space but if it was worth it, I guess I could fix that

Rick - I have built one about a month or maybe two ago - mine has dual 50MHz procs in it so it wasnt exactly a fast process - but I used the 2004.1 media and a recent stage and portage snapshot - it went OK.

Due to the total lack of speed from the box tho its not going to be used I dont think _________________Toady

Gentoo Laptop
3.1.10-gentoo-r1, Intel Core 2 Duo (32bit)
Gnome on the desk, Intel in the box, on-board everything, but it all works!

I still use Classics, with a gentoo built up over the years but still going strong. Classics and similar are great for mundane networking tasks: email, proxies, nameservers, personal squids, firewalls, etc. Classics are still much faster than DSL after all, plus the RISC processor can easily handle loads that make i386+ crawl.

So getting an older boot and even an old stage is fine, it's not like you will be ebuilding a lot. I stayed with 2.4 kernels, but on the Ultra will venture into 2.6 land._________________Being a Gentoo user means living in a house inhabited by a family of crazed carpenters. When you wake up, the house is different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved, or perhaps someone has removed the floor under your bed.